A Two-Stage LP-NLP Methodology for the Least-Cost Design and Operation of Water Distribution Systems

This paper presents a two-stage method for simultaneous least-cost design and operation of looped water distribution systems (WDSs). After partitioning the network into a chord and spanning trees, in the first stage, a reformulated linear programming (LP) method is used to find the least cost design...

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Main Authors: Mengning Qiu, Mashor Housh, Avi Ostfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/5/1364